1 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
14 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
17 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
18 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
19 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
20 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
21 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
22 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
23 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
27 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
37 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
38 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
48 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
51 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
55 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
58 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
59 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
63 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
65 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
70 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
74 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
78 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
80 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
81 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
82 for the dependancies to be generated.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
89 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
96 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
97 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
98 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
103 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
106 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
107 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
126 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
130 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
138 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
139 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
140 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
141 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
142 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
143 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
144 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
145 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
146 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
147 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
148 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
149 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
150 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
156 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
157 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
158 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
160 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
161 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
162 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
163 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
164 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
165 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
167 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
168 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
175 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
188 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
189 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
197 for building debhelper.
198 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
209 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fixed makefile commit target.
212 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
216 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
219 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
220 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
221 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
222 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
223 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
224 it's always available.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
231 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
232 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
233 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
237 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
240 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
241 modules. (Closes: #42171)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
254 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
258 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
267 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
268 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
269 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
276 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
284 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
285 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
287 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
288 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
306 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
307 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
314 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
315 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
317 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
321 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
324 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
325 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
326 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
330 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
333 things if CDPATH is set.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
346 seems to make sense for the transition.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
353 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
361 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
362 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
366 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
369 that version. (Closes: #40589)
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
373 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
375 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
376 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
377 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
378 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
379 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
392 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
393 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
394 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
395 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
396 * debhelper.1: documented this.
397 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
398 current compatability level is equal to that number.
399 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
400 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
401 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
406 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
408 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
409 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
410 * README: mention doc/v2
411 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
412 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
416 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
418 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
419 be using this script RSN.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
423 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
426 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
427 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
428 more than 1 init script.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
432 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
435 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
439 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Changed perl version detection.
442 * Changed call to find.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
446 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
449 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
451 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Really include dh_installpam.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
465 * Wrote man page for same.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
469 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
472 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
473 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
478 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
488 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
489 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
490 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
495 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
498 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
499 well. (Closes: 38900)
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
503 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
506 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
507 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
517 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
530 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
532 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
533 help from Julian Gilbey.
534 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
535 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
536 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
537 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
538 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
539 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
540 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
545 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
551 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
553 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
558 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
564 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
570 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
573 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
577 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
580 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
587 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
591 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
597 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
600 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
604 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
606 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
610 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
612 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
616 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
619 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
620 may be deleted. (#35845)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
624 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Various man page enhancements.
627 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
632 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
635 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
636 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
640 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
643 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
644 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
645 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
647 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
648 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
653 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Another very minor typo fix.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
665 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Very minor typo fix.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
671 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
674 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
675 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
679 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
685 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
687 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
688 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
689 variables properly (#34850).
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
693 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
695 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
699 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
702 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
703 (automatically generated by build process).
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
707 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
709 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
713 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
716 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
717 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
719 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
726 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
730 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
732 * README: minor typo fix.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
736 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
739 leave it at that. :-)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
755 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
758 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
759 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
760 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
767 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
774 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
778 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
781 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
782 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
783 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
784 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
788 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
791 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
792 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
793 Craig Small for spotting this.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
800 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
801 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
805 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
811 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
814 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
818 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
820 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
821 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
822 working on the last version of debhelper.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
826 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
835 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
839 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
842 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
848 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
849 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
850 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
851 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
852 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
856 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
859 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
860 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
861 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
862 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
864 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
865 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
867 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
874 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
884 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
887 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
888 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
889 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
890 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
891 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
892 suidregister actually supports it.
893 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
894 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
898 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
905 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
908 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
909 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
910 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
911 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
912 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
913 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
914 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
918 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
920 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
921 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
928 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
929 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
930 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
931 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
935 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
938 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
940 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
941 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
942 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
943 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
944 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
945 effect, either. (#30118)
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
955 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
958 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
959 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Spelling and typo fixes.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
969 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
971 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
972 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
973 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
974 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
975 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
979 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
982 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
983 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
987 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
989 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
993 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
996 packages, painlessly.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1000 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1006 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1012 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * The perl conversion is complete.
1022 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1024 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1025 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1026 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1031 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1034 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1035 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1036 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1043 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1045 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1047 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1048 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1052 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1055 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1056 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1060 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1066 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1069 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1070 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1071 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1072 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1073 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1080 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1081 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1082 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1083 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1087 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1090 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1094 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1097 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1098 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1099 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1100 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1101 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1102 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1103 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1104 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1117 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1118 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1119 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1127 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1134 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1141 sections of shared libraries.
1142 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1143 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1144 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1145 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1146 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1147 things you don't want them to.
1148 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1149 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1153 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1156 shared libraries. (#26414)
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1162 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1163 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1164 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1165 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1173 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1175 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1176 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1177 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1178 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1179 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1183 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1186 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1190 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1193 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1194 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1199 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1202 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1209 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1210 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1211 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1212 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1213 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1215 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1216 remove debian/files properly.
1217 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1218 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1219 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1220 * Removed bogus menu file.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1227 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1231 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1234 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1235 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1236 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1237 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1238 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1239 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1246 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1247 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1248 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1249 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1253 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1260 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1263 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1264 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1266 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1267 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1268 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1269 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1270 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1271 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1275 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1278 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1279 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1280 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1281 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1282 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1283 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1284 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1285 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1286 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1287 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1288 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1289 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1290 passed any switches.
1291 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1295 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1298 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1299 at all for a long while.
1300 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1301 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1302 large chunks in the process.
1303 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1304 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1305 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1310 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1313 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1315 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1323 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1324 that don't always have the same files in them.
1325 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1326 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1327 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1331 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1335 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1336 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1337 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1338 updating 27 man pages.
1339 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1340 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1341 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1342 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1343 programs act on. (#25247)
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1351 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1352 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1353 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1354 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1355 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1356 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1361 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1368 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1375 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1378 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1382 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1388 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1391 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1392 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1393 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1394 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1395 package by accident.
1396 * Is version 1.0 next?
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1400 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1403 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1404 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1408 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1411 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1412 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1413 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1414 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1415 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1417 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1422 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1425 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1426 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1430 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1433 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1437 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1440 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1441 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1446 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1452 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1455 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1456 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1461 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1467 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1470 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1471 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1472 past week. Thanks, guys!
1474 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1475 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1476 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1477 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1478 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1479 would do in the same situation.
1480 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1481 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1483 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1485 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1486 permissions changed.
1487 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1488 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1489 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1490 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1491 files are treated identically.
1492 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1493 * Minor man page fixes.
1494 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1495 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1496 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1500 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1503 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1504 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1505 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1506 use -X multiple times, too.
1507 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1508 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1512 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1515 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1516 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1520 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1523 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1527 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1530 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1531 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1532 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1533 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1534 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1535 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1536 shape if you're starting a new package.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1540 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1543 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1547 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1550 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1551 because of missing symlinks.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1555 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1561 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1564 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1565 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1566 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1567 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1568 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1570 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1571 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1575 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1577 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1578 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1579 to be changed after the fact :-)
1580 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1584 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1587 no version string after the -V.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1591 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1593 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1594 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1599 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1602 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1606 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1609 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1610 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1611 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1612 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1613 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1614 I always welcome corrections!
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1618 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1624 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1627 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1628 * Documented this new switch.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1632 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1635 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1636 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1637 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1638 no packages use the old behavior.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1642 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1645 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1646 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1650 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1653 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1657 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1663 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1666 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1670 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1673 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1674 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1675 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1685 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1688 into the source package by accident.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1692 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1695 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1696 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1697 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1698 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1699 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1700 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1705 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1709 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1710 inspired to implement some of it.
1711 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1715 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1718 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1722 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1725 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1726 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1730 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1733 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1734 have done.) (#17598)
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1738 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1744 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1750 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1753 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1757 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1760 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1761 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1765 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1768 argument processor in perl.
1769 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1770 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1771 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1772 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1779 type directories. (#16933)
1780 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1781 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1782 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1783 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1784 are supported. (#16935)
1785 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1790 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1793 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1797 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1801 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1802 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1803 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1804 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1805 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1806 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1813 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1814 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1816 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1817 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1818 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1819 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1820 a given package, or -i or -a.
1821 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1822 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1823 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1824 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1825 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1826 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1827 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1828 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1829 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1831 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1832 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1833 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1837 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1840 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1841 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1846 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1849 does not have a section.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1856 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1857 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1858 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1862 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fixed typo #16215.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1868 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1871 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1872 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1873 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1874 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1875 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1880 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1883 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1884 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1885 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1902 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1905 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1906 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1907 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1908 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1909 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1910 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1914 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1920 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1923 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1927 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1930 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1931 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1932 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1936 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1939 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1949 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1952 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1959 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1963 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1972 postinst, postrm, etc.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1976 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1982 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1985 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1986 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1987 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1988 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1989 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1993 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1996 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1997 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2001 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2004 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2008 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2011 installing package files into.
2012 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2017 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2021 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2025 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2031 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2034 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2038 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2041 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2042 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2043 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2044 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2048 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2050 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2051 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2052 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2053 multiple binary packages.
2054 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2055 should rebuild them with this version.
2056 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2060 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2063 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2067 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2070 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2074 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2077 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2078 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2079 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2080 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2081 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2082 debian/README.debian.
2083 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2084 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2085 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2086 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2087 in a few situations.)
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2091 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2097 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2103 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2106 * Fixed several man pages.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2110 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2113 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2114 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2118 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2121 is ready for general use.
2122 * Added man pages for all commands.
2123 * Multiple binary package support.
2124 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2125 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2126 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2128 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2129 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2130 auto-installed as parameters.
2131 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2133 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2136 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2137 the package build directory it is to act on.
2138 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2139 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2140 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2144 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2146 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2147 ready to replace debstd.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400